Books
Aspects' prides itself on having Perth's best selection of gardening books, from Australian native flora through to garden design and propagation. Our selection also includes a wide range of books on travel, art and design, natural and cultural history, cooking, and Australian and children’s literature.
Book - The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff
The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff By Warren Andersen Iwanoff unified international modernism, Bess...
The Architecture of Iwan Iwanoff By Warren Andersen Iwanoff unified international modernism, Besser block relief and innovation with material use and construction to create a unique aesthetic putting Perth onto the global architecture map. A comprehensive review of houses, commercial buildings, apartments and shop fit-outs from 1950 to 1986. Including historical photography, drawings, furniture and unbuilt projects this book takes the reader on a fresh journey through three decades of Iwanof...
$95.95
Book - Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City
Galah: Stories of life outside the cityBy Annabelle Hickson A stunning visual and written antholo...
Galah: Stories of life outside the cityBy Annabelle Hickson A stunning visual and written anthology celebrating life in regional Australia curated by Galah magazine founder, award-winning writer and editor Annabelle Hickson. It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring st...
$69.95
Book - Growing Locals, Gardening with Local Pla...
This is a new edition of Growing Locals: Gardening with Local Plants in Perth, by Robert Powell &...
This is a new edition of Growing Locals: Gardening with Local Plants in Perth, by Robert Powell & Jane Emberson. Besides advice on how to foster a community of local native plants in your garden (or elsewhere), and discussion of why it is desirable, the book will include an updated list of native plants of the Perth Metropolitan Region (over 1,800) and their distribution, compiled by Greg Keighery, Vanda Longman & Barbara Rye. The definitive guide to growing local native plants in the...
$50.00
The Compost Coach Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live! Sp...
The Compost Coach Make compost, build soil and grow a regenerative garden - wherever you live! Spin food waste and household carbon into garden gold, learn about how and why soil matters, and make climate activism an everyday mission, with compost coach Kate Flood. "The Compost Coach" is a colourful, comprehensive and accessible guide to creating the very best compost AKA garden gold. Kate is on a mission to empower readers to understand the small steps they can take every day to look after t...
$39.95
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Aus...
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia: Revised Second EditionAndrew Brown and Bev...
A Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia: Revised Second EditionAndrew Brown and Bevan Buirchell Eremophila species abound on desolate rocky hills, open spinifex plains, sparse woodlands, barren dry watercourses, and inland sand dunes that stretch to the horizon, where the only signs of human habitation are occasional fence lines, rusted remains of vehicles or rough winding tracks that meander into the distance. Aptly, their generic name, when translated, means “lover of lonely o...
$50.00
Nyoongar DictionaryRt. Rev. Bernard Rooney OSB, Emeritus Abbot of New Norcia The book includes a ...
Nyoongar DictionaryRt. Rev. Bernard Rooney OSB, Emeritus Abbot of New Norcia The book includes a comprehensive dictionary of the Nyoongar language focusing on what is now known as the northern dialect. Divided into two sections, NyoongarEnglish and EnglishNyoongar, the dictionary is the result of the author's own grassroots experience of Nyoongar as a spoken language and offers the fruits of his extensive research into the available written sources. These sources include published dictiona...
$13.50
Birds of the Perth HillsTalitha Huston Birds are plentiful and common in the Perth Hills. They ar...
Birds of the Perth HillsTalitha Huston Birds are plentiful and common in the Perth Hills. They are found in backyards, bushland, rivers and lakes. These birds thrive, living in the Jarrah-Marri forest, a type of eucalyptus forest, found only in the southwest of Western Australia. These birds range from honeyeaters to cockatoos, wrens, pigeons, thornbills, and many more. This book is not only an identification and information guide, it also includes photography tips for each bird. About the Au...
$29.95
The Compact Australian Bird Guide
The Compact Australian Bird GuideJeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter ...
The Compact Australian Bird GuideJeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, Kim Franklin 'The Compact Australian Bird Guide' is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all bird species regularly occurring in Australia. The content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with key information to enable rapid identification of a bird, in a convenient form. Based on the award-winning 'The Australian Bird Guide', this compact...
$34.95
Noongar Boodja Waangkan: Noongar First WordsJayden Boundry, Illustrated by Tyrown Waigana Wandjoo...
Noongar Boodja Waangkan: Noongar First WordsJayden Boundry, Illustrated by Tyrown Waigana Wandjoo Noongar boodja - welcome to Noongar Country! Noongar is the language of the Noongar nation and is spoken by 14 different groups across the south-west corner of Western Australia. Written in Noongar and English, this fully illustrated collection of first Noongar words includes family, plants, animals, emotions, colours, numbers and more, with an audio link guide for pronunciation. ‘… a great way f...
$24.95
By the BillabongMaura Finn, Cate James (illustrator) A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cl...
By the BillabongMaura Finn, Cate James (illustrator) A wisdom of wombats,A passel of possums,A cluster of spiders knitting socks . . . Who else might you meet on a trip to the billabong? Find out in this delightful romp through a much-loved Australian landscape. For ages zero to six years old About the Author:Born and bred in New Zealand, Maura Finn now lives in Melbourne with her husband and two young daughters. In her early writing days, she ran a rather lucrative playground business, swapp...
$17.95
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock Re...
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock ReservesJolanda Keeble A guide to the flora of Tarin...
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Tarin Rock ReservesJolanda Keeble A guide to the flora of Tarin Rock Nature Reserve and Tarin Rock Water Reserve, located between Dumbleyung and Lake Grace, Western Australia, including information on fauna and fungi observed in the reserves. About the author:Born in the Netherlands, Jolanda has lived in Western Australia since 2004. Her career focused on environmental management, mainly of human-altered landscapes, but her passion lies with observing and doc...
$50.00
Australian Forest Woods: Characteristics, Uses and IdentificationMorris Lake A comprehensive guid...
Australian Forest Woods: Characteristics, Uses and IdentificationMorris Lake A comprehensive guide to 130 of the most significant Australian forest trees and their wood. The introductory sections introduce the reader to the uniqueness and usefulness of forest trees. The book examines the forest tree species and their wood with photographs, botanical descriptions and a summary of the characteristics of the wood. A section on wood identification includes fundamental information on tree growth a...
$69.95